SERBIA’S PRESIDENT DENIED ALLEGED PLANS TO DIVIDE KOSOVO

PanARMENIAN.Net
24.03.2008 17:45 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Serbia’s President Boris Tadic has denied claims
that Serbia wants to divide Kosovo along ethnic lines by fomenting
violence and tensions in the Serb-dominated north of the newly
independent state.

"There is no secret plan to divide Kosovo," the Serbian president
said Thursday night on Pink, the private TV station.

In Kosovo, a province that is mostly ethnic Albanian, Serbs clashed
with UN and NATO troops in the northern, Serb-held town of Mitrovica,
on Monday, and a UN policeman was killed and dozens of people were
hurt.

The United Nations accused Serbian officials of orchestrating
the violence with the goal of trying to maintain control over
Serb-populated areas of Kosovo.

Tadic said that all Serbia wants is to be present in the north of
Kosovo to help minority Kosovo Serbs with their everyday lives,
the AP reports.

Earlier, it was reported that Serbia submitted to UN headquarters a
document that says the Serbian government recognizes UN jurisdiction
in Kosovo – but says only Serbs, not Kosovo Albanians, can control
the police, judiciary and border customs services in parts of Kosovo
where Serbs comprise the majority.